03.19.2022 Columns Column: Ode to Joy On a recent visit to the city, we plunged back into one of New York’s quintessential cultural experiences: orchestral music at Carnegie Hall. Not just any music, but Beethoven’s...
02.20.2022 Columns Column: Finding a friend I don’t consider myself a big Facebook guy. But I do check in daily and occasionally discover an interesting tidbit from a “friend,” often an old newspaper chum. Newspaper...
12.17.2021 Columns Column: Get Back We had wandered into a more city-centric holiday season than normal, due to a confluence of work issues, grandkid visitation schemes and a vague sense that partaking of Manhattan’s...
11.14.2021 Columns Column: ‘I remember tears’ In the wake of a highly successful field trip to the Empire State Building observatory with our grandson, Max, 14, a couple months back, we arranged for another Manhattan...
11.13.2021 Columns Just Saying: Steamy days in Vermont When it comes to sandwiches, the number one at STARs Café probably rates as one of the world’s top productions. The number one (appropriately at the top of the...